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Responding to a terrestrial paradise

    Two new review-essays appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  They are: “A Truly Remarkable Book,” written by Louis C. Midgley Review of John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, And Encourage Faith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020). 313 pages. Abstract: Saving Faith is a truly excellent […]

“Almost beyond question”

    I want to share with you a couple of passages from Brian Miller, “Does Cosmology Support Cosmic Design?” in Ann Gauger, ed., God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2023), 34-46.  Brian Miller, who earned a B.S. in physics with a minor in engineering from the Massachusetts […]

Cambodian Temples and the Resurrection of Jesus

    Conference Talks: “All Abraham’s Children: A Genetic Perspective” is the name of a presentation that was given by Dr. Ugo A. Perego on Saturday, 12 March 2016, as part of 2016’s Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: “Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit.” Dr. Perego’s presentation is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure […]

When the counter-explanations seem, well, rather lame

    We spent much of today in quest of humpback whales.  And pretty successfully, too.  It’s difficult (for non-specialists, anyway) to distinguish individual whales, but we saw at least half a dozen of them off in the distance, and at least four (including at least one mother and a calf) up very close to […]

Nothing new under the sun?

    Surprise!  Something has just been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Interpreter Radio Show — July 9, 2023 In the 9 July 2023 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen discussed Come, Follow Me New Testament lesson 32, Jeremy Runnells and John Dehlin‘s claim that […]

“Catholic theology made no such provision”

    As I mentioned the other day, my wife and I recently read Prue Shaw’s Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity.  Dr. Shaw studied at the University of Sydney, where she gained First Class degrees in English and in Italian, and later earned degrees at the the Universities of Oxford (B. Phil in General […]

Speaking of “jaded Western tourists” . . .

    We spent the morning and into the afternoon cruising about from Ucluelet, looking (successfully) for bear.  We saw four of them, eating along the shoreline at low tide, in addition to a pair of bald eagles (besides the one that we saw perched atop a tall tree in our own back yard this […]

“Searching Out the Truth about the Mountain Meadows Massacre”

    Having just read two new books on the subject — Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath,  by Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown, and Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture, by Janiece Johnson — I published an article in Meridian Magazine today, Friday, […]

“A Second Mohammed”?

    We were up early this morning, again — our little family group now at full strength — in order to catch the FRS Clipper from Seattle to Victoria, a favorite little trip of ours through the Salish Sea (specifically through Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca).  Then we drove up […]

The witness of three modern prophets

    It’s been a good week, thus far.  On Monday morning, my wife and I read through the latest iteration of the script for the pending Interpreter Foundation Six Days in August theatrical film.  I’m really liking it, and it’s improving, becoming tighter and more focused, with each set of revisions.  That afternoon, we […]